Sentences with phrase «narrow circle»

I began focusing on the important things in life and narrowed my circle of friends exponentially.

It is likely that the outcome of these negotiations will be more fateful than the Persian Gulf War, yet they are still discussed only in narrow circles.

With many successes to learn from, and much new wisdom won through hard experience, we are now closing in upon the ever narrower circle of those still living «outside the circle of development.»

Objections have been raised repeatedly, albeit in rather narrow circles.

But Paul was a classic niche candidate, whose support would never spread far beyond a relatively narrow circle of activists.

Richardson uses quotation from Newman liberally, eschewing Gerard Manley Hopkin's criticism of Newman's «narrow circle of instance and quotation» which had dissatisfied him on first reading The Grammar.

Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

Our world collapses in, confining us to the narrowing circle of our immediate surroundings.

Tocqueville precisely defines individualism as the tendency to confine one's affections and concerns to a narrow circle of immediate family and friends.

Jesus wanted love of neighbour to be understood in a universal sense as the quality of divine love than the narrow circle of natural affection and concern.

So here's what I've written so far about Tocqueville for tomorrow's panel at 8 (just in case you wont be there): Tocqueville called the effect of democracy on the heart individualism — by which he meant apathetic withdrawal from larger communities into a narrow circle of....

Though love can not be commanded, it can be restrained, and the marriage vow ought decisively to narrow the circle of erotic love.

The trail was leading into a narrowing circle, pulling us after it into the thickest growth.

A politics that draws on the widest range of talents and expertise, not the narrow circles of power.

I surrounded myself with positive, supportive friends, narrowing my circle to only those people who inspired me.

Existing mechanisms of asset management and available ways of investing funds are often confined to a narrow circle of customers: these are either professional investors or people with a large fortune, serviced by professional financial advisers.

Rift Lake cichlids fans, L - number pleco lovers, brackish - water devotees and loach enthusiasts, for example, are all likely to care very little about any fish outside their narrow circles of interest.

Born not far from Ankara, socialised within the narrow circle of her Turkish family in Germany, she explores the limits of what is physically possible in her projects, radically committing her own body to her artworks.In Flesh, (No Pig but Pork), she targets the taboos and traditional rituals of the Islamic world, donning Lady Justice «s blindfold, a black negligée and yellow rubber gloves to wallow in pork meat, sniffing the forbidden raw flesh.

For this wider circle of «other family members» (as opposed to the narrow circle of family members set out in Article 2 (2) of the Directive), Member States enjoy a broader margin of discretion and do not have to grant an «automatic» right of entry and residence (para 20).

Communications beyond this narrow circle, such as to more extended family members, close friends and co-workers have not always been so protected.

«Arbitration for peace» places arbitration in a wider historical context, thereby making the subject accessible beyond the narrow circle of specialists without losing its legal relevance.

It was a private sale of TON tokens to a narrow circle of venture funds and high - net - worth individuals.